Women in Sales: Coffee, Connection & Closing.
Start Your Day with the Women Driving Revenue
Sales can be one of the most rewarding and demanding careers. Behind every closed deal is resilience, strategy, relationships, and countless conversations that never make it onto LinkedIn.
Join a curated morning gathering of ambitious women across sales, partnerships, customer success, business development, and go-to-market leadership for meaningful conversations over great coffee.
This is an opportunity to build genuine relationships, share what's actually working in today's market, and learn from women navigating similar challenges.
Whether you're an SDR, Account Executive, Sales Leader, Founder, or CRO, you'll leave with fresh perspectives, valuable connections, and practical insights you can put into action.
What to Expect
Coffee and breakfast networking
Facilitated introductions to help you meet the right people
Honest conversations about selling in today's market
Strategies for building pipeline, negotiating, and closing deals
A supportive community of women who understand the realities of sales
New connections that extend beyond the morning
Who Should Attend?
Sales Development Representatives (SDRs)
Business Development Managers
Account Executives
Enterprise Sales Professionals
Customer Success Leaders
Partnerships & Channel Managers
Revenue Leaders
Founders leading sales
Go-to-Market professionals
Agenda
8:00 AM – Coffee, breakfast & introductions
8:30 AM – Guided networking and discussion
9:00 AM – Coffee, Connection & Closing conversation:
Building trust in a competitive market
Modern prospecting that actually works
Managing long sales cycles
Negotiation tactics
Lessons from recent wins (and losses)
9:40 AM – Open networking & new introductions
10:00 AM – Event concludes
This meetup is free to attend, but please cover your own breakfast and coffee. Next time we will have dining included.
Leading these conversations:
Host & Facilitator: Mirela Xhota, Konnectile
Mirela Xhota is the Founder & Head of Growth of Konnectile, a Sydney based business community and technology partnerships group operating across six professional verticals and an annual summit.
With 18 years at the intersection of media, technology, and commercial strategy, Mirela has held senior roles at some of the world's most respected organisations such as Financial Times, Thomson Reuters, Freshworks, First Advantage, Decidr, and inTruth. Her career has been defined by one consistent capability: turning complex ideas into market-leading commercial outcomes.
As a GTM leader, she has architected and executed revenue growth strategies across international markets, built and scaled high-performing teams, and secured landmark multimillion-dollar partnerships for technology companies navigating rapid change.
She currently serves as Investor Relations Manager at Planet Protector Group, where she works with investors backing sustainable packaging innovation.
She founded Konnectile on a conviction that has only grown sharper in the AI era: that in a world of limitless automation, the scarcest and most valuable business resource is a conversation worth having.
Beyond Konnectile, Mirela is an active mentor and angel investor in the startup ecosystem, providing capital and network access to early-stage founders. She also serves as an expert advisor to Guidepoint, Dialectica, and AlphaSights, contributing critical insight on technology trends and commercial strategy.
Yvonne Hilsz- Conversation leader
Yvonne Hilsz is an award-winning Sales and Leadership Strategist, speaker, trainer and coach who helps leaders, teams and sales professionals build confidence, lift performance and create meaningful commercial growth.
With more than 20 years’ experience across sales, leadership and business development, Yvonne has worked with leading brands across retail, automotive, professional services, government, wine, luxury and corporate sectors.
She is the Founder of Women In Sales, a movement and membership created to help ambitious women sell more, earn more and impact more by building confidence, owning their value and strengthening their commercial capability.
Yvonne was awarded Coach of the Year in 2025 and Business Services in 2025, recognising her impact as a coach, strategist and trusted advisor to leaders, teams and women in sales.
Known for her commercial sharpness, high-energy delivery and ability to turn insight into practical action, Yvonne helps audiences challenge how they think, lead and sell so they can create stronger results with greater confidence.
Vinisha Rathod - Conversation leader, member -The Pillars
Vinisha Rathod is a keynote speaker, advisor, and managing director of a culture and change consultancy, P3 Studio, and author of The Briefcase Effect. With over 18 years shaping leadership, brand, and culture across sectors, she brings deep expertise in human behaviour and commercial strategy.Recently she was the program lead for the Startup World Cup Australia, which is part of the world's largest tech pitch competition, Startup World Cup.
The Briefcase Effect, is based on her signature 1:1 and workshops. This book is a practical deep-dive for anyone seeking alignment, agency and traction. As a fierce advocate for systems that reward merit and capability, she’s driven by a bigger mission: breaking glass ceilings and ending domestic violence through economic empowerment and community. Check her out here - https://thebriefcaseeffect.com/
Why Attend?
Because your next customer, mentor, collaborator, investor, or career opportunity often starts with a conversation.
Come for the coffee. Stay for the connections. Leave with ideas and relationships that help you close your next opportunity.
Venue: The Pillars- to be confirmed.